Separable fastener



F. S. CARR.

SEPARABLE FASTENER.

APPLICATION man JAN- 16. 1920.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

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FRED s. CARR, or NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, Ass snoa To c aR r sTENnR COMPANY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION or MAINE.

SEPARABLE FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 16, 1920. Serial No; 351,789.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, FRED 8.. CARR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New,-

ton, in the county of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an to the securing of separable fasteners to 'fabrics without sewing.

I11 the drawings in which I have shown a preferred embodiment of one form of my invention:

Figure 1 is an elevation of two pieces of fabric secured together by a preferred form of fastener;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a preferred form of socket casing prior to attachment thereof to the fabric; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the socket shown in F 3.

Referring to the drawings of the preferred form of my invention selected for illustrative purposes, I have shown separable fastener including a stud 5 secured to the fabric by stud-securing means 6 similar to that shown in my copending application filed herewith, Serial No. 351,780. I have shown a socket including a spring-containing casing 7 containing a spring 8 and secured.

to the socket-carrying fabric 9 by socketattaching means 10, which preferably as shown takes the form of a flanged-over disk providing a recess into which the fabric 9 .lip of the part 10.

It will be understood that I use the'word in'its broader sense to include not materials, but. any flexible car'- flanged-over-rim of the casing-securing may be crowded, by expansible means 11,

whichpreferably forms a part of the socket casing 7. 7 The stud is secured to itsfabric as shown in my co-pending application The socket maybe secured to its fabric 9 by pressing the socket casing in the form shown in Fig. 3 against the fabric securing element 10 'is side of the fabric, the fabric being pressed into the socket-securing element and the expansible flanges ll of the socket casing expanding to press the fabric only woven I rying medium.-

While I have shown and described a pre- I I of my in-' ferred form of one embodiment vention, it will be understood that changes involving omission, substitution, and reversal of parts, and even changes in the mode of operation, may be inade without'departing from the scope of my'invention, which is best defined in the following claim.

Claimz] A socket for separable fasteners'comprismg, in combination, a casing having a relatively large face portion anda stud-receiving aperture thereln, a mm for said face portion provided with'expansible lip means, acasing-,

securing part having a flanged-over rim, said lip means expanded to interlock with the part.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

FRED s. CARR.

9, while the socketheld on the opposite fabric beneath the Patel ted Aug. 9, 1921.

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